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Veteran broadcast journalist John Qui帽ones will receive the Carr Van Anda Award for his nearly 40 years as a journalist and anchor for ABC 天美传媒 during OHIO鈥檚 Carr Van Anda Symposium on the Athens campus on Oct. 19.

Due to COVID, no public tickets are available, however, the award presentation and his keynote address will be available at 3:05 p.m. via Zoom at this link: .

The award is named for former Ohio University student Carr Van Anda, who was managing editor of The New York Times for 28 years from the beginning of the 20th century to the Great Depression.

鈥淪ince 1968, the faculty in the E.W. Scripps School of Journalism have recognized the careers of well-known and respected journalists by honoring them with the Carr Van Anda Award,鈥� said Dr. Eddith Dashiell, journalism school director. 鈥淛ohn Qui帽ones will join more than 75 Carr Van Anda awardees such as Mike Wallace, Katharine Graham, and Walter Cronkite from the 1960s and 70s to more contemporary journalists such as Gwen Ifill, Charlayne Hunter-Gault, and Judy Woodruff.鈥� 

Qui帽ones joined ABC 天美传媒 in June 1982 as a general assignment correspondent based in Miami, providing reports for 鈥淲orld 天美传媒 Tonight with Peter Jennings鈥� and other ABC 天美传媒 broadcasts, according to his ABC 天美传媒 biography. He spent nearly a decade in Nicaragua, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, and Panama and was one of the few American journalists reporting from Panama City during the U.S. invasion in December 1989.

Qui帽ones is known to the college generation as the host of the ABC reality show 鈥淲hat Would You Do?鈥� for 15 seasons. The show uses a hidden camera to observe how people respond to ethical dilemmas. 

His ABC 天美传媒 bio reports he has received seven national Emmy Awards for his 鈥淧rimetime Live,鈥� 鈥淏urning Questions鈥� and 鈥�20/20鈥� work. Qui帽ones was awarded an Emmy for his coverage of the Congo鈥檚 virgin rainforest, which also won the Ark Trust Wildlife Award. In 1990, he received an Emmy for 鈥淲indow in the Past,鈥� a look at the Yanomamo Indians. Qui帽ones received an Emmy for his work on the ABC documentary 鈥淏urning Questions 鈥� The Poisoning of America,鈥� which aired in September 1988. He was also honored with a World Hunger Media Award and a Citation from the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Awards for 鈥淭o Save the Children,鈥� his 1990 report on the homeless children of Bogota. Other awards include First Prize in International Reporting and a Robert F. Kennedy Prize for his piece on 鈥淢odern Slavery 鈥� Children Sugar Cane Cutters in the Dominican Republic.鈥� Qui帽ones received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Hispanic Media Coalition, a Guerra Lifetime Achievement Award from the San Antonio Association of Hispanic Journalists, and, in 2019, the John F. Hogan Distinguished Service Award from the Radio Television Digital 天美传媒 Association.

A proud fifth-generation Mexican American, Qui帽ones grew up in a barrio in San Antonio and shined shoes with his best friend on Guadalupe Street, where he picked up good tips from the drunks in the bars and cantinas, according to a 鈥�20/20鈥� profile about him. When his father lost his job, the family picked fruit in Michigan and Ohio.

Before joining ABC 天美传媒, Qui帽ones was a reporter for WBBM in Chicago where he earned two Emmys for reporting about the dangerous path to America for Mexican immigrants, according to the 鈥�20/20鈥� profile. Before that, according to his ABC bio, he was news editor for KTRH radio in Houston and anchor-reporter for KPRC TV.

Qui帽ones received a Bachelor of Arts in speech communications from St. Mary鈥檚 University in San Antonio. He received a master鈥檚 from the Columbia School of Journalism.

Qui帽ones is the father of two sons, Julian and Nicco, and a daughter, Andrea. He lives in New York with his wife, Deanna. He is the author of two books, a memoir titled 鈥淗eroes Among Us: Ordinary People and Extraordinary Choices鈥� and 鈥淲hat Would You Do? Words of Wisdom About Doing The Right Thing.鈥�